The Nation's Pulse
Students’ Confusion About Capitalism
For all we know, they think capitalism is a synonym for communism.
“Only 53 percent of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism,” according to an April survey by Rasmussen.
Age made a large difference in how Americans viewed capitalism and socialism, according to the survey, with capitalism getting the worst grades among adults under 30. Only 37 percent of the under-30s favored capitalism, 33 percent preferred socialism, and 30 percent were undecided. It sounds like they could vote in a Castro if he had a good smile.
The preference for socialism, in contrast, dropped to 26 percent among the 30-somethings in the Rasmussen survey, and dropped to just 13 percent among adults over 40.
By party, Republicans by an 11-to-1 margin said that capitalism was superior to socialism, while Democrats were more pro-socialist and more evenly divided, with only 39 percent preferring capitalism, 30 percent favoring socialism, and 31 percent undecided.
Rasmussen didn’t define socialism or capitalism for the respondents during the survey, so we really don’t know how many of the aforementioned responses were based on even the slightest knowledge about the two economic systems.
In January, for instance, I surveyed 50 recent high school graduates, now all in college or on their way. To the question, “Define capitalism in 10 to 20 words,” here are some of the written responses, not atypical:
“Capitalism is making the most money for the government and having the government control the people.”
“Capitalism is the money that is in the government. It is when the government controls all the money.”
“Capitalism is based on a money-hungry nation, seeking to establish power through money.”
“Capitalism is when an economy is based on the needs of the people.”
“Capitalism is when the government takes a bigger role in the economy and controls more things.”
“Capitalism is when the government is the only one deciding laws and regulations.”
“I have no clue what capitalism is because I’ve never paid any attention to politics or the world around me until this year.”
“Capitalism is everything that makes our government run properly.”
“Capitalism is how the government is run. It is the government system.”
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Ralph R. Reiland is the B. Kenneth Simon professor of free enterprise and an associate professor of economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh.
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William| 5.12.09 @ 6:57AM
Capitalism: A system which allows a person to determine their own future, be free from government intervention and control, promotes individualism and personal responsibility, as opposed to being reliant on others, and the ability to lead a life free from taxes and levies--which are collected against ones will and ultimately brings down a society with poor services and lowered living standards. Promises by government to provide a good living and services have historically shown to have all failed. Capitalism, when allowed to work, leads to prosperity for all who embrace it. Socialism has never led to prosperity, other than for those who are in control--of your lives.
Darin| 5.12.09 @ 7:14AM
All the more reason there should be a qualification test required before voting. It can be multiple choice, but basics like this, roles of the various branches of government, etc. should be included. An educated voter can make educated decisions. An ignorant voter picks which option gives them more without regard to the origin. A "right" to vote implies a responsibility to understand the meaning behind that vote.
Our friend David Mathews seems to think capitalism is dead. I assume he works for no wages since receiving either would be capitalism in action. Also, he must have no bank/checking account, savings, investments, retirement plan, private insurance, own a car or house, etc. All marks of capitalism.
Trackback| 5.12.09 @ 7:25AM
The American Spectator : Students' Confusion About Capitalism, on PunditKix, links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Big J| 5.12.09 @ 7:27AM
Capitalism is alive and well, indeed. While now is a difficult time to be self employed, many still are: myself included. I still furnish jobs, health care and more benefits than most small companies. We are struggling, but keep on trucking.
That is the beauty of the system. It sparks a drive and ingenuity that cannot be matched by communism or socialism.
I too thought capitalism was dead when the TARP program was rammed through the legislative process. I am happy to report, however that it is alive and well. Maybe on life support, but still alive.
If and / or when it does die here in America, I will relocate to a country where it is alive and well. For the death of capitalism means the death of the American spirit.
I am willing to surrender neither.
Appleby | 5.12.09 @ 7:32AM
I am sure the Matthews unit lives in his mothers basement. What would it know about economics?
I think it is time for an exchange program that would bring ignorant college and high school students to Kanukistan, particularly to Ontario, to teach them what socialism is and why it is not communism and assuredly not capitalism. We are about 30 years behind the USA and falling fast. TiVo took 8 years to get here after the Americans had it, and Canada still blocks many US channels and tries to block American magazines as well by mandating *canadian content* quotas. The best example of the utter blindness of socialists to reality happened on Sunday (in the middle of a massive Tamil Tigers riot that blocked a major city expressway, although the Tigers are an outlawed terrorist group up here) -- although Ontario is a very heavily auto industry province and is collapsing like wet cardboard, a group of Marching Would Be Mommies pushing empty strollers and chanting Hey Hey Ho Ho something or other demanded *free* In Vitro Fertilization Treatments, as many as they wanted and needed, because they are ENTITLED to as many babies as they want, at $10,000 per treatment, and somebody simply must be forced to pay for them. There is no hint of a suspicion as to where the money to pay for their demands actually comes from. I am nearing retirement age, and have discovered the agreeable surprise that because of the outrageous taxes we have up here, my retirement income from Social Security and CPP will be just what I am taking home while working full time. That is socialism.
Darin| 5.12.09 @ 7:58AM
David Mathews wrote, "Conservatives have been wrong about a great many things."
Such as?
Note you said convervatives, not Republicans, so any examples must be based on conservative ideals. Not all Republicans have conservative viewpoints on everything, just as not all Democrats have liberal viewpoints on everything. You are specifically attacking conservatism, so examples are needed.
Deborah D | 5.12.09 @ 7:59AM
Great column, Mr. Reiland. To keep the country alive, we must keep capitalism alive. Why, if those on the left say they love their country, would they want to destroy what has always made it great?
I know -- a ridiculous question. Either they are too stupid (like our resident DM) to see what a great country they live in or they truly believe that socialism is better regardless of what has gone before. Either way, our educational system sucks.
William| 5.12.09 @ 8:07AM
When the education system became undermined by the socialist left, it was only a matter of time before our once great society became brainwashed and misinformed to believe that it was ok and acceptable to be free from responsibility rather than free from control that mattered most. What a shame our schools have gone from the greatest to the worst in such short time.
Curly Smith| 5.12.09 @ 8:13AM
David Mathews wrote, "Conservatives have been wrong about a great many things ... that's why you are a politically irrelevant minority."
Then why are you wasting your time, the one resource that can never be recouped once spent, trying to influence people who can have no role in the shaping of the future? Is your life so banal that you can only find meaning in the meaningless, or is simply that everything you say is a lie? Yeah, we both know the answer to that question.
Apologies to all for feeding the troll.
Ryan| 5.12.09 @ 8:20AM
Here's the funny thing about socialism, and anything that isn't capitalism.
The Capitalists will still control it, and will always still be around. Those who are enterprising, even under the radar, in doing something either outside of the system or above it still tend to succeed and control resources.
It's what led to the eventual downfall of the feudal system in Europe - the rise of the merchant class and the realization that you don't have to have a title to make money.
Remember, even in socialist and communist areas, people at the top still benefit from their control of the capital. It's getting to that point that's the trick.
Darin| 5.12.09 @ 8:23AM
Hi David,
"that group of uneducated easily manipulated gullibles who happen to believe all of Rush Limbaugh's lies"
As with my earlier question on examples of things conservatives got wrong, please provide examples of Rush Limbaugh's "lies."
Bram| 5.12.09 @ 8:29AM
Capitalism is another word for freedom.
Darin| 5.12.09 @ 8:36AM
David Mathews wrote: "Conservatives are wrong about a great many things ... for example, torture."
Conservatives don't condone torture. What was being done at Gitmo is not torture. Torture is breaking fingers, pulling out toenails, sticking cattle prods up various bodily openings, putting out eyes, puncturing eardrums, etc. What was done at Gitmo is more akin to hazing which used to be done in college fraternities. No one died or was maimed at Gitmo.
But since we're discussing torture, I'm curious to hear your views on abortion. Dismembering an unborn child, puncturing their skull and sucking out their brain, or leaving a born-alive infant (result of a failed abortion attempt) to die is torture. If you intend to pass judgment on the tactics used at Gitmo, you must be definition disapprove of all forms of abortion (which by definition ends the life of a human being at various states of development). The "moral high ground" on Gitmo demands the same stance on abortion.
Big J| 5.12.09 @ 8:40AM
Curly, you should be ashamed of yourself. Recouped? Banal? Our trolling liberal posters cannot possibly be expected to understand the meaning of such words!
Try dropping back and punting by using words such as "extremist minority", "Rush, Bush, Cheney's lies", "torture", etc.
You are such a vocabularistic bully (wait, is that a word? Help, Dave!)!
Sheesh!
/sarc
Darin| 5.12.09 @ 8:41AM
Hi David,
"Of course, you cannot perceive Rush Limbaugh's lies any more than a fundamentalist can perceive the Bible's many errors."
Here we go again. If you're not going to provide specifics, don't make the statement. Scoffers have been trying for centuries to discredit the Bible, and no errors have yet been found in the Bible.
So let's see. No facts on conservatives being wrong (reference earlier response regarding torture). No facts supporting statement regarding Rush Limbaugh. No facts regarding statement regarding the Bible (as well as no facts over several centuries).
Seems to me you're batting .000. Perhaps you should go back to the minors.
Wingnut| 5.12.09 @ 8:41AM
Hi
You DO see the pyramid scheme symbol on the back of the USA one dollar bill, right? You DO see the servitude infestation in capitalism, right? And do you see the "pay up or lose your wellbeing" Chicago mob-like felony extortion widespread within capitalism? Do you see the "join or starve" felony extortion done to the 18 year olds... by this ugly competer's church called capitalism? See how forcing competer's religions onto 18 year olds... kills membership in the cooperator's church (Christianity/socialism)?? Do you understand that AmWay (American Way) (New World Order) got "the exclusive" (legal tender) on the TYPE of survival coupons (money) accepted in supply depots (stores) and leverages 18 years olds into the organization via that felony activity as well? (It puts AmWay-coupon slaving requirements called price tags... on all the survival goods). Do you understand how farmyard pyramids work... from your childhood?? Remember?? Upper 1/3 are "heads in the clouds" while the kids on the bottom ALWAYS GET HURT from the weight of the world's knees in their backs? Still with me? Do you see anything illegal, immoral, or just plain sick... in any of this pyramid scheme's activities?
Us American Christian socialists are still patiently awaiting the natural fall of the pyramid-o-servitude, or the busting of the free marketeers felony... by the USA Dept of Justice. Us Christians are VERY CLOSE to issuing a cease and desist order until the servitude and inequality goes away... which means it turns into a commune. Commune is a word we LOVE when used in the word "community"... but its one the caps HATE when used in the term "commune-ism". Go fig. PROGRAMMED!!
Do a Google IMAGE SEARCH for 'pyramid of capitalist' to see a full color picture made way back in 1911, when capitalism was first discovered to be a con/sham instigated by the Free Masons/Illuminati. Folks sure bought into the thing... hook, line, and sinker just the same. The caps didn't even check if a string was attached! Now THAT'S easy fishing, eh?
Time to level the felony pyramid scheme called capitalism. Abolish economies and ownershipism worldwide, and hurry. Economies just cause rat-racing, and rat-racing causes felony pyramiding. BUST IT, America! Look to the USA military supply/survival system... (and the USA public library system) for socialism and morals done right. Equal, owner-less, money-less, bill-less, timecard-less, and concerned with growth of value-criteria OTHER THAN money-value. Quit doing monetary discrimination immediately, and make it illegal. There are MANY measurement criteria of "value"... not just dollars. Try morals, efficiency, discrimination-levels, repairability, etc etc. Economies are cancerous tumors, and to cheer for their growth... is just insane. Profiting causes inflation, so if caps LIKE inflation, and if they LIKE a terrible time in afterlife when they meet the planet's ORIGINAL OWNER before caps tried to squat it all with ownershipism, then keep it up with the felony pyramiding. I dare you. While us Christians are finally bulldozing that pyramid scheme back to level, lets make servitude and "join or starve" (get a job or die) illegal in the USA, and lets level the architecture seen in USA courtrooms, too. Right now, USA courtrooms are church simulators or "fear chambers", by special design. Sick.
Isn't that back-of-the-dollar pyramid... a Columbian freemason symbol? And WHERE is the USA gov located? District of Columbia? (Not even part of the USA!). How much more blatant can ya get? The "Fed" runs a pyramid scheme called the free marketeers. If you're using the "federal reserve note" certificates, or using no-other-living-thing-on-the-planet entitles of ownership, you're bought into a servitude/slavery con/sham... called capitalism. Pyramiding 101.
Larry "Wingnut" Wendlandt
MaStars - Mothers Against Stuff That Ain't Right
(anti-capitalism-ists)
Bessemer MI USA
wbheff| 5.12.09 @ 8:43AM
"It sounds like they could vote in a Castro if he had a good smile. They did!
William| 5.12.09 @ 8:44AM
It seems certain people think freedomenjoy being told what to do, when to do it, and how to live their lives. And these same people will use lies, fear tactics, and twist facts, to manipulate others. Far more people, a majority rather than a minority, would rather live their own lives the way they want to, which is the root of conservatism. Libs, show us real proof that conservative principles are dead when people still yearn for real freedom, have the ability to speak freely, and live freely.
Rearden| 5.12.09 @ 9:30AM
Mixed economics isn't dead, but it has shown itself to be a faulty; you cannot have your cake and eat it too. Capitalism can't die; it is as natural as the rain, the sunlight, everything. As long as you have people willing to trade their skills for mutual benefit you will have capitalism (unless Mr. Matthews puts people in camps and re-educates them).
Students not knowing what capitalism is shouldn't be surprising. Students (especially American students) are taught from the cradle until graduation a bastardized morality concerning things like the greater good, sharing, cooperative learing, that completely runs counter to the fundamentals of capitalism.
Doorgunner| 5.12.09 @ 9:50AM
www.geocities.com/dmathew1/
dmathew1.dailykos.com/
dmathew1@yahoo.com
David A Mathews
2700 Bayshore Blvd
Dunedin, FL 34698
(727) 736-1954
Doorgunner| 5.12.09 @ 9:51AM
The geocities homepage- priceless comedy gold.
Doorgunner| 5.12.09 @ 9:53AM
http://maps.google.com/maps?li=rwp&q=2700+Bayshore+Blvd,+Dunedin,+FL+34698
Doorgunner| 5.12.09 @ 10:05AM
I'm not sure, but that kind of looks like a 'special needs' facility to me.
Oh, I kid. I KID.
No, really... did you pay for your condo with sunbeams and kitty-kats?
Big J| 5.12.09 @ 10:13AM
You should be ashamed, Doorgunner (Thank you for your service)
Hilarious, but you should still be ashamed of yourself!
;)
GW| 5.12.09 @ 10:47AM
Doorgunner----thanks so much for exposing the liberal hiding behind his mother's skirt.
My calls will be coming shortly. I'll also be sure to bill that number next time I call my aunt in New Zealand.
Maybe a visit or two from some nice Israeli soldiers living in the area would be a good idea.
Claire Solt| 5.12.09 @ 10:51AM
I taught social studies, mainly history, from 1966 to 1987. Then my degrees and experience became worthless and I moved into sales. National History Day was founded to address the fact that 80% of history teachers had neither a major or minor in the subject. Was this due to the dumbing down or fifth column subversion of the likes of Bill Ayers and Howard Zinn. Take back your schools.
Michael L. Hauschild| 5.12.09 @ 11:15AM
Confusion about Capitalism? Initially I worked as a Teaching Assistant as a grad student and I can assure you that my (170) students (soon to be teachers in 1- 12) had a lot more confusion than that involved in economics. My last assignment was in a research department as a PhD. candidate and all but one of my students (11) were here on visas; rest assured that group soon to go back to their native lands were not confused.
Big J| 5.12.09 @ 11:41AM
GW:
You have family in New Zealand? Me too. My Great-Aunt and Great-Uncle (recently deceased) live in Lower Hut with another house in Peka Peka.
I haven't been there since '72, but what a beautiful (albeit mostly liberal) country!
Syrin| 5.12.09 @ 11:57AM
I agree with your conclusion, but it won't happen. Futhermore, it's too late. The walls have been breached, the levies have broken. The majority of the voting populace is uneducated and votes democrat. This is by intent as education is the enemy of fascism. Now we need to work on damage control be it expatriation, seccession or revolution.
Old Texican| 5.12.09 @ 12:13PM
Defend Capitalism...with adults!
The thing that burns my behind is how many OVER 30 Americans did not trouble themselves to vote last November.
Certainly McCain would have just muddled along as President. GREAT! We Americans need a President muddling along, rather than destroying the country in order to build it in his own image.
We conservatives simply need to get our over 30 lazy bones to the darned polls.
Thoughts?
Darin| 5.12.09 @ 12:50PM
Doorgunner,
What you've done is no different than the records search done on Joe the Plumber. I may not agree with David Mathews positions, but I do defend his right to have them and to not suffer any sort of harassment.
Doorgunner| 5.12.09 @ 1:16PM
I beg to differ.
I have merely presented information Mathews put online elsewhere for perusal/use. Indeed, I began by 'clicking' his own hyper-link signature.
And I'll recognize you as a defender of rights when I see you in the back of the helicopter with the rest of the crunchies.
Doorgunner| 5.12.09 @ 1:27PM
My apologies, Darin. I would like to retract the last paragraph.
Doctor Right| 5.12.09 @ 1:34PM
The only reason that so many Americans think that Capitalism is only marginally better (or worse) than socialism is because they've never had to live under a truly socialist system.
But all that is about to change.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
However, there is hope. Americans will not take 70+ years to throw off the yoke of socialism, as they did in Russia. Unless Obama suspends the election, we could be rid of it by 2012...
GW| 5.12.09 @ 2:14PM
Big J:
Mine are in Christchurch. Have never been there, but will one day.
Doorgunner 's right. I remember looking up a guy for a job interview and since he was a conservative Republican County Chair in my hometown, they had him all over DailyKos with home address and everything.
Kos are filth and "Screw Them" Moulitsas have no core, let alone a soul. So to D. Mathews, I say "Screw Him" and his profession which is now painfully obvious is nothing but hurling insults with no thought or respect for anything or anyone.
So now DM gets Kosed!
I'm sure his parents are proud to have such a talented son ------of course his talent is his foul mouth and nothing else.
ben| 5.12.09 @ 2:58PM
People under 30:
Favor Capitalism - 37%
Favor Socialism - 33%
Undecided - 30%
Democrats:
Favor Capitalism - 39%
Favor Socialism - 30%
Undecided - 31%
The striking similarities between democrats and kids, offers proof that democrats are just kids who never grew up.
Marc Jeric| 5.12.09 @ 4:14PM
The mis-education in this country started with legalizing teacher unions in 1965. Show me a strong union and I will show you a dead or dying industry. Already three generations of illiterate nincompoops full of self-esteem populate the country, voting their feelings.
Jack | 5.12.09 @ 4:41PM
DoorGunner,
Good for you my friend. Your info shines all the light on the subject we need. Seriously folks, we know we aren't the type to wake his mama in the middle of the night. The kos connection betrays the source of hate. We knew it was there.
If a "socialist" tried to communicate like the unlucky fellow who hangs out here, he would be hanging from something else pretty quickly.
By the way, we should all make a permanent note of DG's info. Just in case.
Conrad Spiracy| 5.12.09 @ 4:44PM
Claire Solt - thank you for your service in teaching when things were a little more sane.
What we need to do is replace the Qu'ran and Rules for Radicals as required reading with something that will educate. I elucidate:
"The danger is not immediate, it is tru, and conditions in England and the United
States are still so remote from those witnessed in recent years in [country deleted] as to make it difficult to believe that we are moving in the same direction. Yet, though the road be long, it is one on which it becomes more difficult to turn back as one advances. If in the long run we are the makers of our own fate, in the short run we are the captives of the ideas we have created. Only if we recognize the danger in time can we hope to avert it."
Anyone?
Anyone?
Freidrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944. This is THE book that should be required reading in the 6th, 9th and 12th grade. This needs to be ingrained in the mind of every American citizen.
Once they finish their third reading of Hayek, then we can start them on D'Toqueville, Bastiat, Mill, and just for a little opposing perspective, some Nitsche.
Rise up folks - or lose everything. Teach all kids, not just your own. The best way is to do just what Mr. Reiland did - ask them questions. Then ask them to justify their answers. Counter with facts and consequences and teach these WII, XBox addled minds to THINK!
Off soapbox.
Jack | 5.12.09 @ 4:48PM
By the way, I attended the graduation of my nephew from Indiana University this last weekend.
The commencement speech was given by a retired Australian Supreme Court Justice. He was invited by the Uber-liberal university president from Australia, Mr McRobbie. Well the Justice proceeds to come out of the closet and tell the kids its ok to be gay and to the other attendees-"Just get over it". The crowd sat in stunned silence. Nice message as you head out into the world. The president then crowed about the university population's voting turnout in the 2008 election being 287% higher than in 2004. "Electing the finest pres. ever"! Kids were ecstatic but once again all of the parents and grandparents just sat there in silence.
We have more friends than we know.
Conrad Spiracy| 5.12.09 @ 4:48PM
Just had to put up three of my favorites from Bastiat:
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
"The State" (in Selected Essays on Political Economy) par. 5.20
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
The Law par. L.31
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic
The Law par. L.77
Aaron| 5.12.09 @ 7:58PM
Doorgunner,
You have opened up a an interesting topic, our friend Davey is a Jesus freak! I punched his site in the way back machine and came up with lots of crap. Here is one, "I have created this home page in the Geocities community because I am a Christian and wish to teach..." All of his trumpeting that there is no God is simply troll trash obviously. He does seem to have a very sore spot for the Mormons though, maybe one of them wore out his door bell or something. Oh and he REALLY likes cats... just sayin...
http://www.geocities.com/dmathew1/introwk.html
Doorgunner| 5.12.09 @ 9:25PM
I think he's off his Haldol.
Charles Stefan| 5.13.09 @ 12:44AM
The first thing needed is to get rid of the federal Department of Education. And then the teachers unions need to be brought under control so that local school boards can hire teachers based on performance and not seniority. Under performing teachers can then be replaced by new teachers. And probably in many communities the School Board members need to be replaced. As with some illnesses, some major surgery is needed. Tough, but that's life when citizens are not properly educated.
Nick| 5.13.09 @ 12:50AM
Darin,
Are you kidding? What Doorgunner did wasn't even close to what happened to Joe the Plumber.
What was done to JTP was done by agents of the government. Doorgunner is a private citizen searching the internet. How is that the same?
And if liberal trolls don't want to be harrassed, they should be more civil to, and respectful of, others.
Doc| 5.13.09 @ 1:44PM
David Mathews is what Rush would call a young skull full of mush. Spouting slogans he memorized in brain washing. Oops I meant college.
As for electing a Castro with a nice smile?
That may have already happened. (Dude, where's your country)?
Richard Baker| 5.13.09 @ 10:15PM
I wouldn't take for granted that all this Socio-Communism is going to succeed regardless of how many votes there are. This country was founded by Revolutionaries against government tyranny and their descendants still live. If my history is correct, a minority of the colonial American population did the Revolution. For all you dictators out there, watch your Six!
American of the Gods| 5.14.09 @ 11:37PM
nd youve done your best to make one term into an evil beyond all evil, and yet it still did well in the polls! Amazin!
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Quote "Here's the funny thing about socialism, and anything that isn't capitalism.
The Capitalists will still control it, and will always still be around. Those who are enterprising, even under the radar, in doing something either outside of the system or above it still tend to succeed and control resources. " Unquote.
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Semper Fi
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